United States v. Dennis Plemons, No. 15-6076 (6th Cir. 2017)
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION File Name: 17a0432n.06 No. 15-6076 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DENNIS DEWAYNE PLEMONS Defendant-Appellant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) FILED Jul 24, 2017 DEBORAH S. HUNT, Clerk ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE Before: BATCHELDER and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; LEVY, District Judge. KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. In 2014, Dennis Plemons pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the district court found that Plemons had three prior convictions for violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), which triggered a mandatory-minimum sentence of 15 years. One of those convictions was for Tennessee aggravated burglary, Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-403. At the time of Plemons’s sentencing, that crime constituted a violent felony for purposes of the ACCA under our decision in United States v. Nance, 481 F.3d 882 (6th Cir. 2007). In United States v. Stitt, however, we overruled Nance and held that a conviction for Tennessee aggravated burglary is not a violent felony under the ACCA. --- F.3d ---, 2017 WL 2766326 (6th Cir. 2017) (en banc). Plemons’s conviction for that offense therefore was not a The Honorable Judith E. Levy, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, sitting by designation. United States v. Plemons, No. 15-6076 violent felony under the ACCA. We vacate Plemons’s sentence and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion. —2—
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